To:THE CENTRAL AND ST. PETERSBURG COMMITTEES OF THE R.S.D.L.P.

To Absolut’s addressTo the Members of the C.C. and the St. PetersburgCommittee from Lenin

Written:Written August 14, 1905Published:First published in 1926 inLenin Miscellany V.

      Sent from Geneva to St. Petersburg.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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DearComrades,

Ihave received a letter and a “statement” from Comrade Konstantin
Sergeyevich, and consider it my duty to give the following reply, which I
would askallmembers of the St. Petersburg Committee to
read. Needless to say, the conflict should be examined, in accordance with
the Rules of the Party, by the Central Committee, and I am far from
presuming to pass judgement from here. But inview of the reference to the “Lushin letter” as emanating from abroad, I
must express my opinion. Lushin is a despicable defector from the Majority
to the Minority, offended for not having been invited to the Third
Congress. The “Lushin letter” was published by the author (in the press)
earlier, before the Third Congress, and contained the absurd charge that
the Majority had showninsufficient resolution(!) in fighting the
Minority. Comrade Konstantin Sergeyevich made a mistake in signing the
letter, but to hold it against him would be the height of
unreasonableness. It was a forgivable mistake for a man unfamiliar with the
“mores” (or rather lack of mores) of the émigrés. Konstantin
Sergeyevich himself dissociated himself at once from this Lushin
person. Having known Konstantin Sergeyevich first as asplendid,
one of the most valuable correspondents, and then havingmet him
personallyin Geneva, I must commend him as a worker, and resolutely
object to the “Lushin letter” being used against
him.[1]

[1]“Lushinletter”—“Open Letter to the Delegates of the
Third Congress”. Konstantin Sergeyevich (N. V. Doroshenko) was re moved
from work in the St. Petersburg Committee for havingsigned it. He was reinstated after Lenin had explained the circumstances.